Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- General introduction
- 1 Mechanism and the mobility of mechanism
- 2 Overconstraint and the nature of mechanical motion
- 3 Some of the various lines in a moving body
- 4 Enumerative geometry and the powers of infinity
- 5 Rigidity and the instantaneous screw axis
- 6 Irregularity and the freedoms within a joint
- 7 The possibilities in reality for practical joints
- 8 Some elementary aspects of two degrees of freedom
- 9 The linear complex of right lines in a moving body
- 10 Line systems and the dual vectors in mechanics
- 11 Geometrical properties of the linear line systems
- 12 The vector polygons for spatial mechanism
- 13 On the two theorems of three axes
- 14 Some reciprocities across the middle number three
- 15 The generality and the geometry of the cylindroid
- 16 The discovery in a mechanism of a cylindroid
- 17 Action, notion, clearances and backlash
- 18 Singular events in the cycles of motion
- 19 Fundamental relations and some algebraic methods
- 20 The special geometry of some overconstrained loops
- 21 The helitangent lines in a moving body
- 22 The cylindroid in gear technology
- 23 The general and the special screw systems
- Bibliography
- Index of proper names
- Subject Index
1 - Mechanism and the mobility of mechanism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- General introduction
- 1 Mechanism and the mobility of mechanism
- 2 Overconstraint and the nature of mechanical motion
- 3 Some of the various lines in a moving body
- 4 Enumerative geometry and the powers of infinity
- 5 Rigidity and the instantaneous screw axis
- 6 Irregularity and the freedoms within a joint
- 7 The possibilities in reality for practical joints
- 8 Some elementary aspects of two degrees of freedom
- 9 The linear complex of right lines in a moving body
- 10 Line systems and the dual vectors in mechanics
- 11 Geometrical properties of the linear line systems
- 12 The vector polygons for spatial mechanism
- 13 On the two theorems of three axes
- 14 Some reciprocities across the middle number three
- 15 The generality and the geometry of the cylindroid
- 16 The discovery in a mechanism of a cylindroid
- 17 Action, notion, clearances and backlash
- 18 Singular events in the cycles of motion
- 19 Fundamental relations and some algebraic methods
- 20 The special geometry of some overconstrained loops
- 21 The helitangent lines in a moving body
- 22 The cylindroid in gear technology
- 23 The general and the special screw systems
- Bibliography
- Index of proper names
- Subject Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Freedom in Machinery , pp. 6 - 25Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007